Evolution, ecology and the engineered organism: Lessons for synthetic biology

Jeffrey M. Skerker; Julius B. Lucks; Adam P. Arkin

doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-11-114

Evolution, ecology and the engineered organism: Lessons for synthetic biology

Jeffrey M. Skerker, Julius B. Lucks, Adam P. Arkin^*

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As the scope and complexity of synthetic biology grows, an understanding of evolution and ecology will be critical to its success.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	114
Journal	Genome biology
Volume	10
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2009-10-11-114
State	Published - Nov 30 2009

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JBL and APA acknowledge the support of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center under NSF grant number 04570/0506186. JBL acknowledges the Miller Institute for financial support. JMS and APA would also like to acknowledge support of the Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Genetics
Cell Biology

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